Pakistan wins the 1965 War against India

WI Pakistan had managed to defeat India, perhaps Operatiob Grand Slam is successful, Akhnoor is captured and Pakistan somehow knows the Indian offensive towarsds Sialkot and Lahore and manages to stop it.

Also, to make it more interesting, China joins the war. They did mobilize in OTL, but India accepted the UN mandate.
 
India would have been humiliated and would have massively rearmed to get revenge. There would have been an arms race with Russian, French and Chinese weapons flooding in. Another war would have broken out with heavy losses and a Pakistani defeat.

China would have done nothing especially as things became so tense on the border with the USSR in the later 1960's.

There would also have been large scale communal clashes in India with muslims suffering a kind of pogrom. It's probably better that things worked as they did in the OTL.
 
Interesting. Perhaps here, East Pakistan stays on.

If India begins preparing for a rematch on a larger scale, would not Pakistan and China band together with US aid, since the Indians are now in the Soviet camp.

And what of Afghanistan? They had beef with thr Pakistanis over the Durand Line. Would they get entangled in this?
 

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It was Akhnur or Lahore. And no Pakistani government was going to choose. In OTL every Battalion in the Pakistan Army was heavily engaged in 1965 as was every reserve battalion, they took Stuart Tanks out of depots for Christs sake.

And they did IOTL stop the attacks on Lahore and Sialkot, the Indian forces at the latter battle were decimated, espcially the 1st Armoured and 6th Mountain divisions.
 
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